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File Number: 17-533 <br />required online format and includes an assessment of the progress toward achieving the five-year <br />goals and objectives, an evaluation of annual performance, and a financial summary. Various <br />HUD reports are included that provide information on the number of people served with each <br />project and by categories such as race and income. Below is a summary of some of the City’s <br />notable activities and outcomes described in the FY 2016-2017 CAPER that highlights the City’s <br />accomplishments in the second completed year of its FY 2015-2019 HUD Consolidated Plan. <br />Objective: Provide Decent Housing <br />Priority/Action: Affordable Housing Needs/Preserve existing affordable rental and <br />ownership housing for households at or below 80% Area Median Income. <br />Housing Rehabilitation Program: In FY 2016-2017, the City experienced a brief hiatus in the <br />Housing Rehabilitation Program provided by Neighborhood Solutions. Neighborhood Solutions <br />provided this service in San Leandro since 2003 and unexpectedly resigned mid-year. City staff <br />released an RFP and secured a new service provider, which began operations in FY 2017-18. <br />The goal of San Leandro’s housing rehabilitation program is to make homes safe and livable for <br />low-income homeowners. The new provider for this service is Rebuilding Together Oakland / East <br />Bay - approved by the City Council in Spring 2017 - to provide this needed service. Given this <br />change in service provider, there were only four housing rehabilitation grants awarded this fiscal <br />year. <br />There were four housing rehabilitation grants (three minor home repairs and one mobile home <br />repair) provided in FY 2016-2017. All of the housing rehabilitation grants were for extremely <br />low-income (30% AMI) homeowners. A total of two of the grants were for seniors. The Housing <br />Rehabilitation Program provided a wide range of improvements to the four income-eligible <br />homeowners including a mobile home roof repair, the replacement of a non-functioning heating <br />system, repairs to a water damaged bathroom infrastructure including moisture control measures, <br />and water heater replacement. This program assists the City to preserve existing affordable <br />ownership housing for low- and moderate-income households. <br />Objective: Provide a Suitable Living Environment <br />Priority/Action: Affordable Housing Needs/Reduce housing discrimination. <br />Eden Council for Hope and Opportunity Housing (ECHO Housing): In FY 2016-2017, the <br />City continued to contract with ECHO Housing, a regional non-profit fair housing agency, to <br />provide fair housing services in an effort to reduce housing discrimination. ECHO Housing <br />received 23 fair housing inquiries involving 45 clients, in which ECHO Housing provided <br />information, counseling, and/or investigation in fair housing inquiries or allegations of housing <br />discrimination. ECHO Housing also educated people about fair housing laws, rights, and <br />responsibilities through workshops, trainings, and presentations. The City allocates CDBG <br />general administration funds, not public services funds, to ECHO Housing's fair housing services <br />to fulfill the City’s federal mandate to affirmatively further fair housing. <br />Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 9/12/2017